Alix Costin Illustration and Glass

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The Contemporary Glass Society invited members of the Guild of Glass Engravers to take part in an online selected exhibition "Making Marks" to run from 4th March 2024.

From the exhibition:
Alix Costin
Fetch
Two handblown and stacked vases which have been hand engraved
217mm x 183mm

My piece ‘Fetch’ is inspired by walks in my local park. Whilst on these walks I play fetch with my dog and collect foliage I find on the ground, which I then take home to draw from in order to create an illustrated log; like a foliage map of the park. ‘Fetch’ reflects the social areas which people use every day, and that we all take for granted.

Photo Credit:
Nigel Essex

You can view and buy pieces from the exhibition here
https://cgs.org.uk/onlineexhibition/making-marks-exhibition-an-invitation-from-cgs-to-the-guild-of-glass-engravers/

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Have a look at the exhibition !!
Thank you for sharing my work Contemporary Glass Society

“Making Marks”- The latest Contemporary Glass Society online selling exhibition was launched yesterday!

The Contemporary Glass Society invited members of the Guild of Glass Engravers to take part in this show, to run from 4th March 2024.
The show, entitled “Making Marks” was an opportunity to highlight the amazing skills required to create the beauty of engraved glass!

This is part of CGS’s annual programme of 2 month long online exhibitions which are also selling exhibitions.

CGS was delighted to have the opportunity to work with the Guild of Glass Engravers on this show. Work was selected by Trustees of both organisations and by our joint Patron, Mark Holford.
https://cgs.org.uk/onlineexhibition/making-marks-exhibition-an-invitation-from-cgs-to-the-guild-of-glass-engravers/

Most of the work is for sale! So please contact the artists directly through their contact details!

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'Fetch'

This is my 3rd year Final Peice!
Stacked Hand-blown vase set. Decorated with hand engraved illustrations and 24 Carat gold leaf gilding.
The peice is inspired by walks in my local park, playing fetch with my dog Archie. 🐕🥎

Photography by Nigel Essex 📷

Engraving process

Making process of my vases

Illustrations inspired my walks in my local park

Handmade vase with handpicked Sunflowers 🌻

Me with my pieces 'Yorkshire Meadow' at the 'Reflect' gallery Exhibition at LCB 💚

Come check the gallery out, exhibition till the 31st May!

'Yorkshire Meadow' My final exhibition set.
1st is hand build ceramic vase, with my illustrations hand drawn on and engraved. Then glazed with oxide.
2nd is a hand blown glass vase illustrated and hand engraved to to mirror the ceramic peice.

Mould blown vases, cut and cold worked. I have experimented with a few.

6 mould blown vases, cast from a ceramic vase. Straight from the leur, no cold working

Plant print Vase, black acrylic prints with oxide over.

Texture experimentation oxidized test tiles. Inspired by my nature drawings

Texture experimentation Vase. Stonewear oxidized

Handmade oxidised plate with scraffito foliage,
Stonewear clay

Hand blown glass rod roll up vase experiment

Amethyst crystals and Purple frit trapped in glass

Hand blown murine glass bowl, made with my own hand pulled kane

Blown glass vase with opalite Crystal's mixed in and blue frit. Due to the tensions of the Crystal's it shattered but stayed whole.

Handmade blown glass murine vase, made with my handmade pulled kane.

Handmade Crystalline glaze bowl experiments
Part 2

Handmade Crystalline glaze bowl experiments
Part 1

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